I. Overview
EcoDater is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. EcoDater created this
Privacy Policy (the "Policy") in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to protecting
the privacy of the users of EcoDater products and services (the "Services") and
available through EcoDater's website (the "Site"). Please read through the information
below and any supplemental information referenced in this Policy for additional
details about our particular Site. This Policy discloses how we use and share your
information collected through the use of the Services and the Site. We use the Information
that we collect about you to create a more personalized online experience for you.
If you have a question about any of the information in this Policy, please contact
EcoDater at:
Attn: Legal Department
EcoDater
PO Box 103271
Denver, CO 80250
info@EcoDater.com
II. What information do we collect from you?
In order to provide Services and maintain our Site, EcoDater collects two types
of information from its users and visitors: personal information and non-personal
information. Our primary goal in collecting these types of information from you
is to provide you with a customized experience while using the Services on our Site
- not to raise concerns about the safety and security of your information.
Personal information. Depending on the Service, we may collect personal information
(including, but not limited to your name, address, zip code, country, phone number
and e-mail address), demographic information (including, but not limited to your
age, household size, income level, education, gender, information about your business
and birth date), financial information (including, but not limited to your credit
card information) and psychographic information (including, but not limited to your
reason for Internet use, reason for use of the Services and the Site and topics
of interest to you).
Non-personal information. This refers to information that by itself cannot
be linked to your personal identity. We automatically gather certain non-personal
information about you based upon your activity on the Site or the way you use our
Services. We also collect machine data (such as processor type and speed, account
information, operating system type, internet connection speed, browser type, audio
devices, modem devices, video cards and any software on your computer that may interact
or interfere with our software or Services) and your web browsing information (such
as a web Site' Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which URL
you next go to, access times on a URL, certain non-identifying purchase transaction
details and the Internet Protocol ("IP") address from which you have accessed the
Site).
III. Where do we collect your information?
Registration and online forms. We collect information that you submit on
registration forms, surveys, questionnaires, responses to sweepstakes or other special
offers, or other online forms or interactive portions of our Site. We may also collect
information from users and visitors to our Site regarding the referring URL, IP
address, which browser a person used to come to the Site and the pages of our Site
that a user or visitor viewed during one's visit.
Third-party sources. We may gather new information or update existing information
from other sources including, but not limited to, for example, verifying and updating
your address using third-party services, using various methods to update your credit
card expiration date or collecting or comparing information from our subsidiaries.
Online surveys. When you participate in an online survey sponsored by an
EcoDater entity or a trusted partner, we may ask you for certain information, for
example, demographic information (like your zip code, age or income level) and your
hobbies and interests in order to track responses.
Contests and Sweepstakes. We may run contests, sweepstakes and other promotions
on our Site or through our Services, in which we may request entrants to provide
personal and/or contact information. EcoDater uses the information collected in
the entry form to verify the entrant's identity, age and to communicate with entrants.
We will not knowingly permit children under the age of 13 to participate in contests
or sweepstakes. We may also co-sponsor a contest or sweepstakes with a trusted partner
contractually obligated to protect your personal information with whom we will share
information obtained as a result of participation in the contest or sweepstakes.
Technical/Support Information. If you contact us by e-mail or other means
for technical support or information related to the Service, we may keep a record
of your communication and its resolution. Thus, if you report a problem with our
Services or Site, we may collect such Information in a file specific to you. Moreover,
if you contact us through our feedback area, we require your name and e-mail address
in order to send you a reply. Additionally, if other users or third parties send
us correspondence about your activities or postings on our Site, we may keep the
Information in a file specific to you and/or the investigation and action we take.
IV. How is your information used?
EcoDater uses the Information it collects to provide you with more relevant services,
including, online shopping, third-party offers, contests, promotions, surveys and
advertising. To accomplish this we may collect and perform research on the Information
from our users and other parties that provide similar types of consumer information.
This research is compiled, analyzed and used to better serve our users, third-party
advertisers, and trusted partners. In particular, we have described below some of
the ways we use the Information you provide:
Personalize your experience. Information is used to tailor your experience
of our Services on the Site, such as by displaying advertisements and content that
might be of interest to you.
Respond to inquiries. If you request information from us, then we will collect
Information from you in order to respond to your requests or inquiries.
Understand user needs and trends. We use Information to do internal research
on our users' demographics, interests and behavior to better understand and serve
our users and visitors. We also collect Information regarding the referring URL,
your IP address, which browser you used to come to the Site and the pages of our
Site that you viewed during your visit.
E-mail and direct mail marketing. You may agree to receive e-mail, advertisements
and promotions from us, third-party advertisers, and trusted partners regarding
products or services we believe you may be interested in, new features or products
we are introducing, tips on product use, and promotions. If you later decide that
you wish to cease receiving such e-mail or direct mail marketing, you may do so
at any time by opting-out of participation in these marketing activities.
Since it is necessary for us to contact you regarding certain matters, you may not
opt-out of receiving messages related to material company announcements or policy
changes, or administrative matters relating to your account, like billing, collections,
customer service or the like.
If you subscribe to a free or discounted version of a Service, you acknowledge that
as a condition of receiving such free or discounted Service, you may be required
to receive information and advertising related to products and services offered
by EcoDater. You further acknowledge that any such advertisements and information
may be an inseparable part of the free or discounted Service, and in order to opt-out
of receipt you may be required to terminate the relevant Service.
Diagnose service problems. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems
with our Services, servers, software, and to administer our Site. We also review
"log-file" data to monitor Site performance and analyze traffic and usage patters
of our Site.
V. Do we monitor your online communications?
We will not intentionally monitor or disclose any private e-mail messages or online
communication between you and a third party, although we reserve the right to monitor
accounts that we believe, in our sole discretion, to be acting in violation of the
Terms of Service or any applicable law or regulation; to protect the integrity of
our Services or the Internet community as a whole; in an emergency situation; or
pursuant to request of governmental or legal authority.
VI. Who is collecting your information?
EcoDater takes great care to ensure our users' privacy-but not every company has
comparable policies. While you are on the Site or utilizing our Services we will
be collecting Information, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. Some of our
Services are offered in conjunction with third-party advertisers or our trusted
partners in a co-branded manner. When we offer you co-branded services or products
and you respond with your information, we may share your personal information with
our third-party co-branding partner.
Once you leave our Site, we cannot assume any responsibility for any other content
or practices of unaffiliated Site. Providers of unaffiliated Internet Site or services
have separate data and privacy practices independent of our Policy that govern the
manner in which they use the information that you provide to them. Even within our
Site, many of the features and much of the content is supplied by third parties
(or jointly by EcoDater and one or more third-party advertisers or trusted partners),
each of which has its own privacy policies and practices, and the Site may link
to some pages provided by third-parties that are co-branded by us and the provider.
VII. With whom do we share your information?
Except as otherwise described in this Policy, we will not disclose or share your
unaggregated personal information to an unaffiliated third party unless you consent
to the disclosure of such information.
Sale or rent of personal information. We do not rent or sell your unaggregated
personal information to anyone without your express consent.
Our service providers. Like many companies, we work with service providers
who provide services to us. We may share your information with these service providers
in order for them to provide their services on our behalf, such as administering
surveys, promotions, conducting data processing or analysis, or providing advertising
on our Site. We require each service provider to use the information only as is
necessary for the service provider to complete its responsibilities for us, to have
in place a privacy policy similar to this Policy and abide by confidentiality restrictions
and implement security measures to safeguard such information.
Purchasers of the business. If EcoDater sells, assigns or transfers the part
of its business that provides a particular service to you, your information may
be sold, assigned or transferred as a part of such transaction.
Legal Matters; Protection of Rights, Property and Interests; Safety.
We may, without your consent, access and disclose your personal information, any
communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we have about
you or your account: as may be permitted or required by law, regulation, rule or
court order; pursuant to requests from governmental, regulatory or administrative
agencies or law enforcement authorities; to establish or exercise our legal rights
or defend against legal claims; or to prevent, investigate, identify persons or
organizations potentially involved in, or take any action regarding, suspected fraud,
violations of our Terms of Service, or activity that appears to us to be illegal
or may expose us to legal liability. Additionally, we may disclose your personal
information in situations that we believe to be emergencies involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any person or property if we believe that your
personal information in any way relates to that threat.
VIII. How may you access or update your information?
The information you provide during registration for, or during your use of, the
Services is placed in your Personal Profile. You may access or update the information
contained in your Personal Profile on the Site at any time or through other methods
provided through our Services. EcoDater may update the information in your Personal
Profile with information obtained through generally accepted methods of address
verification.
IX. How do we protect your information?
EcoDater uses security systems and secure computers to protect your information.
For example, the information in your Personal Profile is password-protected so that
only you may access or change the information. You should not share your password
with anyone. EcoDater personnel will never ask you to divulge your password in written
or electronic communications. We will only ask you for your password when you contact
us and only in cases where you request customer service to correct a service problem
which requires your password. Additionally, when highly confidential information,
such as a credit card number, is transmitted through our Site, it is encrypted by
using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software. Please be aware that Internet security
technology changes rapidly and data transmission is never 100% secure. We cannot
guarantee that any safeguards we use will completely protect your information from
security threats whether now or in the future. You should also be aware that despite
our efforts, factors beyond our control may result in disclosure of your information.
Accordingly, we are not able to guarantee the security of the information you transmit
when utilizing our Services.
X. A note about international users.
The information we collect from users is processed and maintained in the United
States, where privacy laws may not be as protective as in your home country. If
you are using our Site from outside of the United States, by providing information
to us you are consenting to the transfer of the information to the United States
for processing in a manner consistent with this Policy.
XI. A note about the privacy of children ages 13 to 18.
We collect, use, and disclose information about children ages 13 to 18 in the same
manner as we do for adults. We believe that it is especially important to protect
childrens' privacy online and encourage parents and guardians to spend time online
with their children to participate and monitor their Internet activity. If you are
under 18, we recommend you get your parents' permission before disclosing any information
about yourself to anyone on the Internet. We do not filter advertisements or other
content that children may receive, and they could receive content and materials
from the Internet and/or advertising that are inappropriate for children.
XII. Use of cookies and web beacons.
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored in a browser-related file on your
computer's hard drive when you use the Services on the Site. Cookies are uniquely
assigned to your computer, and are read by a web server in the domain that issued
the cookie to you. Our primary use of cookies is to enable us to recognize your
computer each time you return to our Site or use our Service, keep track of your
preferences, determine what you have already seen on our Site and to improve your
online experience. For example, storing a cookie on your computer allows you to
login without typing your registered e-mail address or registration number and password.
We may also use an e-mail delivery and marketing company to send e-mails that you
have agreed to receive. Pixel tags and cookies are used in those e-mail messages
to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising. Third parties, including
third-party advertisers, may also set cookies. Such third parties are responsible
for placing and using such cookies and may collect information about you through
such cookies. We do not have access to such cookies, control the use of such cookies
or have control over the privacy policies of such parties. Please also note that
certain types of e-mails available through the Services on our Site may automatically
log you into the Site and/or set new cookies when you click on the links in the
e-mails and that you may need to manually remove such cookies if you do not want
them to be set on your computer.
If you do not want cookies stored on your computer you can reject cookies by modifying
your web browser setting accordingly (each browser is different, so check the "Help"
menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences). However, if
you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to access products and services
that we offer that require you to "login" or "sign in."
XIII. Privacy Policy changes.
If EcoDater changes its privacy practices as described in this Policy, those changes
will be posted in this document so that you will always know what information we
gather, how we might use that information and to whom we will disclose it. We reserve
the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, amend and/or remove portions
of this Policy at any time. We will notify you about significant changes in the
way we treat your information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address
specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on the Site for a period
of at least 30 days prior to the Policy change noting that there will be significant
changes to this Policy. Please be sure to check this page periodically for changes
to our privacy practices.
XIV. Acceptance of these terms. This Policy is incorporated into and subject
to the terms of the EcoDater Terms of Service. Each time that you use the Site or
our Services, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by
the Terms of Service, which incorporates this Policy. If you do not agree to the
terms of this Policy, you must discontinue using the Services and software, terminate
your account and uninstall any copies of software allowing making use of the Site
or our Services possible. This Policy is effective upon acceptance in registration
for new users, and is otherwise effective on January 1, 2009 for all EcoDater users.
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